Devouring Stars: Master of Evolution

Chapter 294 The Second Generation Hive Tyrant: A Method to Break Through the Hundredfold Genetic Limit

"What resources do you need for research on implanted weapons?"

The Lord of Chaos asked directly.

"First, there should be creatures with defensive abilities; the more the better!"

Ideally, it would be possible to create a series. I plan to develop the bio-armor into a series, ranging from low-end talents to high-end talents.

There are also special life forms, specifically those with defensive abilities.

Qin Mu didn't stand on ceremony and told him what he needed.

As for basic resources, Qin Mu didn't bother to mention them; there was no need for them.

"No problem. We'll bring you everything that's in the clan's treasure trove, and someone will collect anything that's not there."

The Lord of Chaos City spoke without the slightest hesitation.

"Yes, thank you, teacher."

Qin Mu smiled.

"Humanity should be thanking you!"

The Lord of Chaos City shook his head, then changed the subject.

"You said this is the first way to improve the Hive Tyrant's defense, what about the second one?"

His eyes were filled with anticipation. If the bio-armor could really be developed, it would be a leap forward for humanity.

Given enough time, the overall genetic makeup of humanity will be improved.

With overall improvement, the number of strong individuals that humanity can produce will naturally increase.

Seeing the expectant look on his teacher's face, Qin Mu smiled.

"The second type has little to do with human races, at least not for the time being."

"The reason why the Hive Tyrant was killed was partly due to defense, but also because there were too few of them!"

Therefore, I plan to deploy the second-generation Hive Tyrants on the battlefield, temporarily serving as their guards.

The Lord of Chaos City was clearly disappointed, but he quickly realized that it was good enough to have one of these heaven-defying items like bio-armor; otherwise, he would be insatiable.

"Second-generation Hive Tyrant? A weakened version?"

The Chaos City Lord asked curiously, "With Qin Mu's talent in genes, he can create a terrifying special life form like the Hive Tyrant. It wouldn't be difficult to create a weakened version based on that."

"No, this is an enhanced version of the first-generation Hive Tyrant."

He fused the superior genes of twelve celestial beasts and the special life form Netherworld Poisonous Python, making him even more powerful than the first generation.

In terms of gene multiplication alone, it has reached about a thousand times.

Unfortunately, despite centuries of research into the second-generation Hive Tyrants, they are not stable and only survive for a maximum of three years.

Qin Mu made no attempt to hide anything, his tone carrying a hint of regret.

At his current stage, there's no longer any point in hiding anything.

The stronger his talent, the more attention the human race will pay to him; there's no need to hide it.

"A thousand times the genetic potential?!"

The Lord of Chaos City gasped.

Because of Qin Mu's honesty, and because he personally explored the primordial universe, the first-generation Hive Tyrant's genetic multiplier only reached 100 times.

The ability to achieve a 6,000-fold increase is due to the enhancement provided by the Blood Crystal and the unique characteristics of the Qin Mu insect race itself.

"Well, the second-generation Hive Tyrants have already broken through the hundredfold genetic limit. I don't plan to enhance Blood Crystals for the time being. Instead, I'll send them to the battlefield as Hive Tyrant guards."

Qin Mu said.

He had already squandered almost all of the hundreds of millions of Blood Crystals he had obtained from the Immortal Temple, leaving only about ten million.

Most of the Blood Crystals were used to enhance Behemoth.

Qin Mu knew that as long as he asked, the Chaos City Lord would definitely send a batch of supplies to him from the Blood Luo World.

But there's no need for that.

There is a limit to the enhancement of Blood Crystals; the first-generation Hive Tyrant had already reached this limit.

Even with Blood Crystal enhancement and talent enhancement, the second-generation Hive Tyrant can only achieve a genetic multiplier of ten thousand times.

This is what Qin Mu tested.

Given this, Qin Mu temporarily abandoned the idea of ​​fusing the Blood Crystal with the second-generation Insect Nest Tyrant.

If the genes of the second-generation Hive Tyrant conflict can be stabilized, the potential will be far greater than a thousandfold!

It should be noted that the genes of the twelve peak bloodline star beasts used by the second-generation Hive Tyrant were all specially enhanced. Among them, the Golden Horned Beast gene came directly from Luo Feng after cultivating the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual, with a gene multiplier of 90 times!

The fold increase of the remaining genes also reached 70-80 times after enhancement.

Unfortunately, the genetic conflicts are too severe, and the organism is on the verge of genetic collapse at every moment.

Therefore, Qin Mu planned to use the second-generation Hive Tyrant as Tyrant Guardians, sending them to fight to the death in the outer battlefield, where the swarm's talent for adaptive evolution might naturally evolve.

Without the need for Blood Crystal enhancement, the second-generation Insect Hive Tyrant's strength is already enough to make it invincible and grant it the title of Marquis and Immortal.

With the resources Qin Mu has, hatching tens of thousands of them would be easy; even if many die, one or two will eventually evolve.

"Has your research already surpassed the genetic limit of the primordial universe by a hundredfold?!"

The Lord of Chaos City was somewhat incredulous.

He couldn't help but recall that time reversal that covered the entire human territory and even most of the primordial universe.

At that time, Qin Mu said that it was related to one of his research projects, a study that broke through the limitations of the universe's rules and surpassed genes by a hundredfold.

"It's not a breakthrough, it's just a shortcut."

Qin Mu thought for a moment, then said.

"In the primordial universe, only special life forms under the Lord of the Universe could break through the limitation of a hundredfold increase in genes."

Even with treasures like Blood Crystals, ordinary life forms, once their genes have increased a hundredfold, can no longer fuse with them.

Why is this possible for special life forms?

Some special life forms have a gene multiplication factor of only a few dozen times, but they can grow to a gene multiplication factor of over a hundred times.

Therefore, I think that special life forms, besides having a significantly stronger genetic makeup, are more like having a license, or rather, a permission granted by the original universe.

This kind of authority is unrelated to the soul, because it is possible to break through this current limitation by possessing a special life.

This means that their permissions must be related to the body, or rather, to genes!

At this point, Qin Mu laughed, but his laugh was somewhat strange.

"What defines a special life form? We define special life forms as those that are born naturally in the secret realm of the primordial universe with a genetically superior number of genes and that cannot reproduce naturally."

But if I use gene editing technology to perfectly replicate everything about it, wouldn't it be considered a special life form?

The Chaos City Lord's heart clenched as he listened.

How to perfectly replicate a special life form that cannot reproduce naturally using gene modulation technology?

What kind of outrageous idea is this?

Seeing Qin Mu's strange smile, the Chaos City Lord knew that he had most likely already done this, and even succeeded.

"Therefore, I considered using a method of fusing special life genes with ordinary life genes to circumvent this limitation."

Qin Mu smiled.

He didn't make his point too clear because he knew that the primordial universe possessed its own will.

To protect itself, the primordial cosmic will is even capable of deception and lying.

In Qin Mu's view, the privileges of special life forms lie in their special genetic structure.

So, is an ordinary life form that has been transplanted with this special gene structure considered an ordinary life form or a special life form?

In the past, no one had ever done anything like this in the primordial universe.

Nobody knows the outcome.

But Qin Mu has the ability and can do it.

This is a clever way to circumvent the rules.

Any method is acceptable as long as it works!

Although the primordial cosmic will is powerful, it still needs to abide by the rules.

It's like possessing the original universe; it's also allowed by the rules!

Of course, that requires the right approach and considerable strength.

When someone is possessed, the original cosmic will can resist and even take the initiative to act.

The progenitor is the best example.

But as long as it doesn't break the rules, it won't and can't do anything to Qin Mu.

Even if it wants to do something, at most it can only deceive others through lies and get them to take action.

Even for an entity like the Mountain-Sitting Guest, which can possess it, the primordial cosmic will can only keep an eye on the Mountain-Sitting Guest, but cannot do anything to it.

We can only wait for the person sitting on the mountain to make a mistake, and then take action.

This is why the Mountain Dwellers rarely take action themselves; even when they do, they often use treasures or other means to prevent the primordial cosmic will from having a chance.

Qin Mu's use of special life genes to circumvent the hundredfold gene limit for ordinary life forms is simply a reasonable use of the rules.

"Let's wait until the second-generation Hive Tyrant's genes stabilize. Maybe then I can use this method to allow the strongest members of my human race to break through this limitation."

Under the expectant gaze of the Chaos City Lord, Qin Mu spoke.

"Great! I'll wait for your experiment to succeed!"

The Lord of Chaos City took a deep breath.

If successful, this would definitely be another technology capable of revolutionizing the original universe.

A technology even more terrifying than genetic engineering and implantation!

The seeds of genes and the armor both begin at the grassroots level of the human race, allowing the lower classes to rise and accumulate strength.

Ultimately, this led to an increasing number of immortal and powerful individuals within the human race.

The more immortals there are, the greater the possibility of breaking through to become a cosmic venerable or even the cosmic master.

In the primordial universe, the ultimate contest between forces was about the number of universe masters, or even the strongest beings in the universe.

This will take a long time, and even require luck.

This is the real reason why races like the Zerg, the Demon Race, and the Machine Race are angry but not fearful or tense, and they don't launch inter-race wars.

They cannot start a real tribal war with humans now just because the human race will rise up millions of years from now.

Even if the strongest beings at the very top of the universe were willing, the lords of those universes would not be.

In a true war between races, even the ruler of the universe will perish!

The rulers of the universe are dead, and no one can resurrect them.

However, the methods to overcome the 100-fold genetic limitation are different.

This can directly enhance the combat power of top-tier humans.

Like a top-tier cosmic overlord!

What's the difference between a top-tier cosmic overlord and an ordinary cosmic overlord?

It lies at the level of life's genes!

Those who can become top-tier cosmic overlords are either special life forms themselves or possess special life form clones.

For example, a special life form at the level of a cosmic overlord, whose life gene level is 8000 to 9000 times higher, has divine power that is hundreds of times purer and more powerful than that of an ordinary cosmic overlord. Coupled with supreme treasures and an extremely powerful divine body, it can fight against even the cosmic lord and persist for a long time.

How many top cosmic overlords does the human race have?

You can count them on one hand!

If Qin Mu's method of breaking through a hundredfold gene size can be achieved, what would happen if it were applied to them?

Humanity has few top-tier cosmic overlords, but many ordinary cosmic overlords!

It's even possible that some cosmic overlords could break through to become cosmic masters as a result.

This is the same principle as those world lords who used the fourth-generation gene seed to break through to the peak of immortality.

Some people have been stuck at that level for a long time, just one step away from success!

Breaking through genetic limitations may be the key step!

The immortal stage is special. Although it transforms into a divine body, it can still increase the gene multiplier.

What resources or help do you need?

"The Lord of Chaos asked."

"No need, not for now. Just find me some special life forms with defensive talents; that's compatible with the resources needed for researching bio-armor."

Qin Mu shook his head, not taking the opportunity to ask for more resources.

With the resources that Master Chaos City mentioned earlier, he already has enough to squander at this stage.

We can ask for more later if we run out.

Although it draws massive amounts of resources from the human race to fuel the growth of its insect swarm, its contributions to humanity are equally astonishing.

"Okay, I understand."

The Lord of Chaos City looked pleased and full of admiration.

……

While the master and apprentice were discussing, the effects of the fourth-generation gene seed were spreading.

Upon hearing the news, all the tribes were stunned.

Choose a talent?

What a terrifying ability!

The primordial universe was thrown into turmoil.

(End of this chapter)